Jack London Quotes

I had a million jobs before I managed to make a living out of poetry.

People think they're gonna make a living off poetry. Ten years ago, maybe a couple of people did. Right now, no one, I don't think.

I saw I could rhyme words. It came simply to me. But I wrote some pretty horrible songs that I still have on tape.

Acting kind of pays my bills more than music does.

But one does not make living writing poetry unless you're a professor, and one frankly doesn't get a lot of girls as a poet.

It's nearly impossible to make a living in the arts.

It's easy to look down from the summit you've reached, or even the summit I've reached, and talk about the responsibilities of the artist, but most people are just trying to get their foot in the door and make a living.

Sing your life; any fool can think of words that rhyme.

Is it possible to write a poem or are these words just screams of outlaws exiled to the desert?

Mia Maz glanced aside in concern at his muffled snort. "Are you all right?" "Yes. Sorry," he whispered. "I'm just having an attack of limericks." Her eyes widened, and she bit her lip; only her deepening dimple betrayed her. "Shhh," she said, with feeling.

I was not born under a rhyming planet, nor I cannot woo to in festival terms.

Would you be a poet Before you've been to school? Ah, well! I hardly thought you So absolute a fool.

I would especially like to re-court the Muse of poetry, who ran off with the mailman four years ago, and drops me only a scribbled postcard from time to time.

Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.

In communist countries, you execute your poets. In the free world, the poets execute themselves.

Serious music usually doesn't pay.

I realize that I really have to make music work for me as a career because I can't do anything else.

There's nothing more difficult than a line.

So what rhyming poems do is they take all these nearby sound curves and remind you that they first existed that way in your brain. Before they meant something specific, they had a shape and a way of being said. And now, yes, gloom and broom are floating fifty miles away from each other in you mind because they refer to different notions, but they're cheek-by-jowl as far as your tongue is concerned. And that's what a poem does. Poems match sounds up the way you matched them when you were a tiny kid, using that detachable front phoneme.

Goethe in Weimar sleeps, and Greece, Long since, saw Byron 's struggle cease.

Poetry is a mug's game.

Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.